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About

Bahamasair is the national airline of the Bahamas with their headquarters located in the capital, Nassau. The airline was established in 1973 and the local airline offers scheduled flight services to 32 regional destinations around the US, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands and the Bahamas.

Current domestic routes out of Nassau include airlift into Grand Bahama, Abaco, Eleuthera, Exuma, Crooked Island, Acklins, Mayaguana, Inagua, San Salvador and Long Island in October 2016. Currently International routes that are operated include Florida – Miami, Fort Lauderdale, West Palm Beach and Orlando. Other international routes include The Turks & Caicos and Havana, Cuba.

The airline's main purpose as the National Flag carrier is to provide an ‘Essential Service’ bridging Nassau, the nation’s capital and the remote Family of Islands. The national carrier was incorporated under the name Bahamasair Holdings Limited and resulted from the amalgamation of two privately owned carriers, Out Island Airways and Flamingo Airways. The airline remains wholly owned by the Bahamas Government. In December 1975, Bahamasair inaugurated scheduled services to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Recently, in 2001, Bahamasair inaugurated scheduled service to Havana, Cuba and in 2004 started flights to Santo Domingo.

Baggage

Carry-on Baggage

Bahamasair allow one personal item, for example a handbag or camera case, alongside a carry-on bag. The two items combined must not exceed 22 x 14 x 9inches, and 20 lbs in weight. These two items apply for both international and domestic flights. 

Checked Baggage

Bahamas Air allow passengers one checked bag free of charge. This must be 62 inches or less, when combining the length, width and height dimensions. It can not exceed 50 lbs in weight. Any additional bags to the one free bag is charged at the following rates:

Second bag - $35.00

Third Bag - $75.00

Fourth Bag - $125.00

Check-In Information

Online Check-In

Bahamasair offer online check-in for their flights. The link to this can be found here.

Airport Check-in

If passengers wish to check-in at the airport for their flight, they must arrive and check-in at least two hours before scheduled departure time. This applies to both domestic and international flights.

Fleet

The Bahamasair fleet includes three ATR 42-600, two ATR 72-600, three Boeing 737-500 and one Boeing 737-700 aircraft.

Economy Class

Economy Class is Bahamasair's only cabin class. 

Economy Class Facilities

The airline offers a warm and friendly service, carried out by the airline's professionally trained cabin crew.

The airline doesn't offer in-flight entertainment, but there may be a magazine to read onboard. 

Economy Class Seats

Seats are set out in either a 2 x 2 or 3 x 3 configuration, with plenty of legroom and space for each passenger. 

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Hub Airport

Lynden Pindling International Airport

Lynden Pindling International Airport is the biggest airport in the Bahamas and is located near the capital of Nassau. It was originally known as Nassau International Airport, but changed its name to its current state in 2006. In 2014, it handled over 3 million passengers, and it has two serving runways. Other airlines that fly to the airport include American Airlines, Delta, Cubana de Aviacion, JetBlue Airways, Copa Airlines and Silver Airways.

Frequent Flyer Program

The airline operates a frequent flyer program called Bahamasair Flyer to reward regular passengers.

Destinations

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News

7th June 2018

Bahamasair and Silver Air pushed to the limits!

Bahamasair was recorded performing an "evasive manoeuvre" when it realised that there was a Silver Airways plane during a flight on Tuesday afternoon. There was never any huge risk involved. Passengers were aware of their proximity to another plane but the crew professionally reassured them that there was no cause for alarm. Apparently, this issue came about due to mixed coordinates. Air Traffic Control was made aware of the situation and reduced the aircraft's climb rate so the airline and Silver Air could pass by each other like planes in the night.

28th March 2018

Bahamasair to upgrade B737 fleet profile

The national carrier of the Bahamas is looking to acquire a B737, capable of seating between 138 and 144 passengers, for use in improving its dispatch reliability as well as charter offerings. According to The Tribune-Herald newspaper, the country's Minister for Tourism and Aviation, Dionisio D’Aguilar said the incoming aircraft, believed to be aB737-700, would be funded through the transfer of collateral assets and would not be borne by the fiscus.

“The airline, in conjunction with its lenders, will seek to acquire the additional aircraft through the transfer of collateral assets," he said in a statement. "The banks are currently holding cash collateral on the company’s USD120 million loan and have indicated that they would be willing to allow the airline to replace the cash collateral with an additional aircraft as collateral.” The state-owned carrier currently operates three 120-seaterB737-500s alongside three ATR42-600s and three ATR72-600s. The Boeing jets are currently deployed on local trunk routes as well as services to Antigua & Barbuda, Cuba, Trinidad & Tobago, St. Lucia, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, and various points in the US states of Florida, Illinois, Georgia, and Texas.

16th January 2018

Bahamasair chairman: 'We'll be the best we can be'

The carrier's chairman stressed that the national flag carrier is fully on board with delivering a quality service, saying: "We want this airline to be the best it can be". Efforts are been made to extensively control costs and manage the performance of its domestic routes. The airline has been getting a $14 million subvention on average from the government.

“In 2016, the airline got a $120 million loan which has to be repaid. We know that, and so we know what we have to do and, right now, we are doing the best that we can.We’re trying our best to turn things around. I’m not going to make any declarations but I know that we are doing all that we can.” Mr Turnquest said the airline remains important to growing the country’s tourism product. “We recently launched our service to Houston, Texas, and we are excited about that service as well as the other international routes that we service, which allows for greater connectivity in bringing visitors to our shores,”.